Dr. Soumen Mukherjee did his B.Sc. (Physics Honours) from Calcutta University, MCA from Kalyani University, and ME in Information Technology from West Bengal University of Technology, India. He is the silver medallist in the ME course at West Bengal University of Technology (now MAKAUT). He earned his Postgraduate Business Management Diploma from the Institute of Management Technology, Center of Distance Learning, Ghaziabad, India. He has completed Ph.D. in Computer Science from West Bengal State University. He is now working as an Associate Professor (Dept. of IT) at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He has 22 years of teaching experience in the field of Information Technology, Computer Science, and Computer Application. He has around 60 research papers published in different national and international journals, conferences and more than 10 book chapters in different books by international publishers. He has contributed to over 20 internationally acclaimed Computer Science and Engineering books and edited 3 book volumes. He has served as Program and Editorial Chair in International Conference ICCSE 2016 proceedings published by CRC Press. He is also served as a reviewer in some reputed journals and prestigious conferences. He got two best paper awards at international and national conferences. He has completed the translation of one of SWAYAM MOOC's courses "Introduction to Cyber Security" in Bengali language. His research fields are image processing, soft computing, machine learning, and pedagogy. He is a life member of several institutions like ISCA, CSI, ISTE, and FOSET. He is a Fellow of IETE. He is awarded with "Dr. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Memorial Award" by The Science Association of Bengal for his notable contribution in Education, Research and Social Welfare activities in 2025.
Working Experience:
22 years experience as a Full time Faculty member in the field of Computer Science, Computer Application and Information Technology.
(1) Worked as a Whole time Lecturer in Computer Science Department at Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College (Under University of Calcutta), 30, Prince Anwar Shah Road, Kolkata-700033 from August, 2003 to September, 2004.
(2) Worked as a Visiting Lecturer in Computer Application at RCC Institute of Information Technology (Under West Bengal University of Technology) from August, 2004 to September 2004.
(3) Presently working as a Associate Professor in Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology (Under West Bengal University of Technology), Canal South Road, Beliaghata, Kolkata-700015 from October, 2004 to till date.
Awards/ Recognitions:
1) Ranked 2nd in the University (Silver Medallist) in M.E. (IT) examination in West Bengal University of Technology in 2006.
2) Awarded "Dr. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Memorial Award" by The Science Association of Bengal for his notable contribution in Education, Research and Social Welfare activities in 28th February 2025.
3) Awarded best paper presentation in the International Conference on Contemporary Advances in Innovative & Applicable Information Technology, March, 2018.
4) Awarded best paper presentation in the Doctoral Colloquium and Research Scholar Day in the Department of Industrial and System Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, 2019.
Publication in Journals:
1) "Malignant melanoma detection using multi layer preceptron with visually imperceptible features and PCA components from MED-NODE dataset", S Mukherjee, A Adhikari, M Roy, International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics 12 (2), 151-168
2) "Classification of single and double-gate nanoscale MOSFET with different dielectrics from electrical characteristics using soft computing techniques", A Deyasi, S Mukherjee, AK Bhattacharjee, A Sarkar International Journal of Information Technology 12 (1), 165-174
3) "Voltammetric electrode array optimization for black tea discrimination using computational intelligence approach" S Acharya, D Das, TN Chatterjee, S Mukherjee, RB Roy, B Tudu, IEEE Sensors Journal 21 (18), 20589 20595
4) "Design and implementation of a novel authentication algorithm for fool-proof lock-key system based on visual secret sharing scheme". H Tunga, S Mukherjee, International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI) 9 (3), 182
5) "Sarcasm analysis and mood retention using NLP techniques", S Majumdar, D Datta, A Deyasi, S Mukherjee, AK Bhattacharjee, International Journal of Information Retrieval Research (IJIRR) 12 (1), 1-23
6) "Melanoma Detection From Lesion Images Using Optimized Features Selected by Metaheuristic Algorithms" S Mukherjee, A Adhikari, M Roy, International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics
7) "Designing a re-configurable fractional Fourier transform architecture using systolic array", A Acharya, S Mukherjee, International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI) 7 (6), 159
8) "Optimization techniques for a voltammetric signal to predict green tea quality parameters using MIP electrode" S Acharya, D Das, S Nag, S Mukherjee, AK Hazarika, S Sabhapondit, IEEE Sensors Journal
9) "Parkinson's Disease Clustering and Classification with Multi Layer Perceptron using Best Ranked Voice Feature and Associative Rule Generation", AK Bhattacharjee, S Mukherjee, International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI) 14 (5), 31-36
10) "A Deep Learning Approach to Sarcasm Detection from Composite Textual Data", A Khan, D MAJUMDAR, B MONDAL, S MUKHERJEE, INFOCOMP Journal of Computer Science 21 (2)
11) "IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING MODEL ENSEMBLING".D Datta, A Mukherjee, S Mukherjee, AK Bhattacharjee, A Acharya, ICTACT Journal on Image & Video Processing 12 (4)
12) "Melanoma Detection by Meta-Heuristically-Optimized MLP Parameters Using Non-Dermatoscopy Images" S Mukherjee, A Adhikari, M Roy, International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing (IJAMC) 12 (4), 177 200
Book Chapter Published:
1) Jayati Ghosh Dastidar, Debangshu Chakraborty, Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, (2019), “Analysis of Human Gait for Designing a Recognition and Classification System”, in Intelligent Innovations in Multimedia Data Engineering and Management, Edited by. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, IGI Global, DOI:10.4018/978-1-5225-7107-0.ch008.
2) Arpan Deyasi, Swapan Bhattacharyya, Pampa Debnath, Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, (2019),”Implementation of Outcome-Based Education Through Activity-Based Teaching-Learning System”,in Modern Technologies for Teaching and Learning in Socio-Humanitarian Disciplines, IGI Global, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7841-3.ch004.
3) Soumen Mukherjee, Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee and Arpan Deyasi, (2019), “Project Teamwork Assessment and Success Rate Prediction Through Meta-Heuristic Algorithms”, in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Information Systems and Software Engineering, IGI Global, DOI:10.4018/978-1-5225-7784-3.ch003.
4) Soumen Mukherjee, Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Debabrata Bhattacharya and Moumita Ghosal, (2019), “Analysis of Industrial and Household IoT Data Using Computationally Intelligent Algorithm”, in Computational Intelligence in the Internet of Things, IGI Global, DOI:10.4018/978-1-5225-7955-7.ch002.
5) Mukherjee, S., Adhikari, A., & Roy, M., (2018). “Melanoma Identification using MLP with Parameter Selected by Metaheuristic Algorithms”, Published as a Book Chapter in the Book Titled “Intelligent Innovations in Multimedia Data Engineering and Management” Edited by. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, IGI Global, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7107-0.ch010, Page 241-268.
6) Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Soumen Mukherjee, Arindam Mondal and Dipankar Majumdar, (2019) Metaheuristic-Based Feature Optimization for Portfolio Management, Edited By: Jhuma Ray, Anirban Mukherjee , Sadhan Kumar Dey , and Goran Klepac, Metaheuristic Approaches to Portfolio Optimization, IGI Global, 2019 Pages: 17, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8103-1.ch005.
7) Role of Metaheuristic Optimization in Portfolio Management for the Banking Sector: A Case Study Soumen Mukherjee, Arpan Deyasi , Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Arindam Mondal and Anirban Mukherjee, Metaheuristic Approaches to Portfolio Optimization, Copyright IGI Global, 2019 2019 , Pages: 23, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8103-1.ch009.
8) A. K. Bhattacharjee, S. Mukherjee, R. Dhar, and A. Deyasi, "Classification of Operating Spectrum for RAMAN Amplifier embedded Optical Communication System using Soft Computing Techniques", accepted in Book Title: Computational Intelligence Enabled Research [ELSEVIER], 2021
9) A. Deyasi, A. K. Bhattacharjee, and S. Mukherjee, "A Novel Outcome Evaluation Model blended with Computational Intelligence and Digital Pedagogy for UG Engineering Education", Book Series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library: Book Title: Computational Intelligence in Digital Pedagogy, [SPRINGER], vol. 197, ch. 14, pp. 277-293, 2021 [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-8744-3_14]
10) A. Acharya, S. Mukherjee, A. K. Bhattacharjee, D. Datta, and A. Deyasi, "COVID-19: Will it be a Game Changer in Higher Education in India?", accepted in Book Title: Data Science for COVID-19, Publisher: Elsevier, 2020
11) Madhu Agarwal Agnihotri, Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Soumen Mukherjee, "Conflict Management and Resolution in Context of Educational Institute, Edited By Siddhartha Bhattacharyya , Strategic Approaches for Conflict Resolution in Organizations: Emerging Research and Opportunities, Pages: 187, ISBN13: 9781799817260 , DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1726-0, ch 05.
12) Dipankar Majumdar, Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Soumen Mukherjee, Intelligent Investment Approaches for Mutual Funds: An Evolutionary Model, Edited By Goutam Bose, Pritam Pain, Machine Learning Applications in Non-Conventional Machining Processes, Copyright IGI Global, 2021, ISBN13: 9781799836247, Pages: 15, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3624-7.ch017.
SWAYAM MOOC's Translation Project
Completed translation of one SWAYAM MOOC's course in Introduction to Cyber Security in Bengali language.
Books Published as a contributor/author:
1) Starting Out with Java: Early Objects (Fourth Edition): Text book; Author: Tony Gaddis, International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-27-375122-0, ISBN 13: 978-0-27-375122-9
2) Computer Science: An Overview (Eleventh Edition): Text book; Author: Glenn J. Brookshear International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-75139-5, ISBN 13: 978-0-273-75139-9
3) Java: An Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming (Sixth Edition): Text book; Author: Walter Savitch International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-75142-5, ISBN 13: 978-0-273-75142-7
4) Java How to Program (Ninth Edition): Text book; Author: Paul Deitel and Harvey Deitel International Edition Contributed Author
by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-75976-0, ISBN 13: 978-0-273-75976-8
5) Problem Solving with C++ (Eighth Edition): Text book; Author: Walter Savitch International Edition Contributed Author
by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; Edition; ISBN 10: 0-273-75218-9, ISBN 13: 978-0-273-75218-9
6) Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with Shader-Based OpenGL (Sixth Edition): Text book; Author: Edward Angel and Dave Shreiner International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-75226-X, ISBN 13: 978-0-273-75226-4
7) Distributed Systems:Concepts and Design (Fifth Edition): Text book; Author: George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, Gordon Blair International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-76059-9, ISBN 13: 978-0-273-76059-7
8) Data Structures and Abstractions with Java (Trird Edition): Text book; Author: Franck M. Carrano International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-76476-4, ISBN 13:978-0-273-76476-2
9) Internet & World Wide Web: How To Program (Fifth Edition): Text book; Author: Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel, Abbey Deitel.
International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-76402-0, ISBN 13:978-0-273-76406-1
10) Computer Security: Principles and Practice (Second Edition): Text book;Author: William Stallings, Lawrie Brown, International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-76449-7, ISBN 13:978-0-273-76449-6
11) Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in Java (Third Edition): Text book; Author: Mark Allen Weiss International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-75211-1, ISBN 13:978-0-273-75211-0
12) Computer Vision: A Modern Approach (Second Edition): Text book; Author: David A.Forsyth, Jean Ponce, International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-76414-4, ISBN 13:978-0-273-76414-4
13) Concepts of Programming Languages (Tenth Edition): Text book; Author: Robert W. Sebesta, International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-76910-3, ISBN 13:978-0-273-76910-1
14) Simply Visual Basic 2010 An App-Driven Approach (Forth Edition): Text book; Author: Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel, Abbey Deitel.
International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-77681-9, ISBN 13:978-0-273-77681-9
15) Business Data Communications: Infrastructure, Networking and Security (Seventh Edition): Text book; Author: William Stallings, Thomas Case. International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-76916-2, ISBN 13:978-0-273-76916-3
16) C++ How to Program (Ninth Edition): Text book; Author: Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel, International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited, International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-79329-2, ISBN 13:978-0-273-79329-8
17) Starting Out With C++ Early Objects (Eighth Edition): Text book; Author: Tony Gaddis, Judy Walters and Godfrey Muganda.
International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited,
International Editions; ISBN 10: 0-273-79331-4, ISBN 13:978-0-273-79331-1
18) Database Processing: Fundamentals, Design, and Implementation: Text book; Author: David M. Kroenke and David J. Auer.
International Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pearson Education Limited,
International Editions; ISBN 10: 1-292-00486-X, ISBN 13:978-1-292-00486-0
19) Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach With WebGL (Seventh Edition): Text book; Author: Edward Angel and Dave Shreiner Global Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee
Pearson Education Limited, Global Editions; ISBN 10: 1-292-01934-4, ISBN 13:978-1-292-01934-5
20) Java An Introduction to Problem Solving & Programming (Seventh Edition) Pearson Global Edition: Text book;
Author: Walter Savitch & Kenrick Mock Global Edition Contributed Author by Soumen Mukherjee and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee
Pearson Education Limited, Global Editions; ISBN 10: 1-292-01833-X, ISBN 13:978-1-292-01833-1
FDP/Training
2017
1. One Week faculty development program on “Advanced Data Mining For Big Data Analysis” under TEQIP – II March 14th to 18th, 2017 in Dept. of CSE, RCCIIT, Kolkata.
2. One Week faculty development program on “Cyber Defence & Network Security” under TEQIP – II March 27th to 31st, 2017, Engineering Staff College of India, Hyderabad, India.
3. Two Week faculty development program on “Hybrid Computational Intelligence” Two Week, 17th -27th July 2017, Dept. of IT, RCCIIT, Kolkata and NIT, Patna.
4. One Week FDP on Shallow to Deep Learning and Applications (SDLA 2017) , 7th to 11th November, 2017, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (NBA Accredited), RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata.
5. One (1) day MATLAB workshop on “Data Analytic and Signal Processing with MATLAB” organized by MATHWORKS, on 10.10.2017.
2018
1. One Week FDP on Recent Trends in Optimization Theory and Applications, 23.07.2018 to 27.07.2018, National Institute of Technical Teacher’s Training and Research, Kolkata, MHRD.
2. One (1) day IEEE EDS outreach program organized by Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, RCC Institute of Information Technology, sponsored by IEEE EDS Kolkata Chapter, on 10.07.2018.
2019
1. NPTEL Certificate for “Introduction to Programming in C” (8 weeks) Jul-Sep 2019.
2. NPTEL Certificate for “Software Engineering” (12 weeks) Jul-Oct 2019.
3. NPTEL Certificate for “Programming in Java” (12 weeks) Jul-Oct 2019.
2020
1. 1 Week HANDS-ON Faculty Development Program on Artificial Intelligence using Python organised by Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, A.I.S.S.M.S. Institute of Information Technology,Pune Supported by I.E.T.E. Pune Section in association with Brainovision Solutions India Pvt.Ltd. & National Youth Council of India held from 14-09-2020 to 19-09-2020.
2. One Week Online Faculty Development Programme on LaTeX, from 29th June, 2020 to 3rd July, 2020, conducted by the Department of Information Technology, Mizoram University in association with Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay, under Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT), MHRD, Govt of India.
3. One Week Online Faculty Development Program on “ Recent Research Challenges in Computer Science and Applications (RRCCSA)", organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, held from 23-11-2020 to 26-11-2020 and 28-11-2020.
4. 5 – Day workshop on “Machine Learning in Data Science” organized by Department of Computer Applications, B. P. Poddar Institute of Management and Technology on August 11 - 15, 2020.
2021-2022
1) 1 Week Faculty Development Program on "Inculcating Universal Human Values in Technical Education", Organized by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) from 11/04/222 to 15/04/2022.
2022-2023
1) 1 Week Faculty Development Program on "Fundamentals of IoT", Organized by Dept. of IT, RCCIIT, from 19/12/2022 to 23/12/2022.
2) 1 Week ATAL Faculty Development Program on "Designing and Modelling of IoT, AI & ML Systems", Organized by AICTE, ARM Education and STMicroelectronics from 01/08/2022 to 05/08/2022.
3) 1 Week Faculty Development Program on "AI for Future Workforce Program" Organized by RCCIIT and Intel.
4) 2 Week Faculty Development Program on "Introduction to Advanced Pedagogy" Organized by NITTTR, Kolkata from 14/12/2022 to 25/12/2022.
2023-2024
1) 1 Week Faculty Development Program on "Recent Trends and Advancement in ML and NLP" Organized by Narula Institute of Technology from 12/07/2023 to 17/07/2023.
2) 1 Week STTP on "Crafting and Conducting Cutting-edge Research and Innovation" Organized by Dept. of ESM, IQAC and IIC of RCCIIT from 03/01/2024 to 08/01/2024.
3) 1 Week Faculty Development Program on "Concepts, Applications, Trends and Commercialization of IoT" Organized by Amity Institute of Information Technology from 17/07/2023 to 21/07/2023.
4) 1 Day FDP on "Technological Involvement in Collaborative Pedagogy" Organized by IBS of ICFAI.
2024-2025
1) 1 Week Faculty Development Program on "Designing OBE Curriculum under Autonomy" Organized by NITTTR, Kolkata from 29/07/2024 to 02/08/2024.
2) 1 Day FDP on "Strategic Direction in Higher Education" Organized by IBS of ICFAI.
